WATHDOG REPORT Vol.24 No.85 January 5, 2025: EST:05.05.00 – A 24-Year community education resource celebrating 24-years of free weekly publishing
WATCHDOG REPORT
Miami-Dade, Fla.
Vol.24 No 85, January 5, 2025, Celebrating May 5th,2000: 24 -years of free weekly publishing! www.watchdogreport.net & Former Miami Herald featured, news reporter & education resource & news service, without the attitude.
>>> Just because you do not take an interest in politics does not mean politics will not take an interest in you. –Pericles (430 B.C.)
>>> ARGUS REPORT: HEARD SEEN ON the STREETS
>>> I recently had a test many consider unpleasant but wasn’t for detection of colin cancer, and am waiting results, all should follow with routine checks. For early detection in most cancers is important, and older people are especially at risk as medicines and other advances keep us alive many years longer than in the past.
Further, after I had a stroke in 2013 subsequently I was on WLRN 91.3 F.M., radio on “Topical Currents,” with a neurologist from FIU, and interventional neurologist from Baptist Health and F.A.S.T., was the acronym’s of the day for symptoms of a stroke; For more go to: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/fast-stroke-signs
>>> Elected leaders need to raise bar re public oversight of public money, $11million in campaign PAC’s not a good look for leaders, treat their own money different from publics I have found over 24-years, judicial races also raise same questions, are some attorneys favored over others?
It’s a slow news week with public government coming out of hibernation next week so little to report but sadly some died from New year night stray bullets over the holiday, such a tragedy that can be avoided.
Further, reflecting on 24-years of up close to government and also courts. I continue to see public money, it’s not county money (was one refrain by a county MIA director Gary De Lappa) being loosely spent, and getting personal money from elected officials is impossible but public dollars no problem
However, with federal dollars drying up and inflation hammering residents, preserving scarce dollars has to be a priority local and nationwide. Another thing I observed was the elected judiciary’s, need for fundraising to get elected in local non-partisan races, that many attorneys law firms would prefer not to do when it comes to fundraising. And with $11million raised for local county races and the five new constitutional offices races, is a lot of money better spent elsewhere than campaigns and voters know this money brings personal contact available to contributors and both parties are guilty and have no shame to amount of money raised though legal.
>>> Carter passing, at 100, man helped create in 1980 the Miami of today with an influx of Cubans from across spectrum of people including many professionals.
The passing of President Jimmy Carter, 100, had a unique aspect to South Florida, and I was here during the Mariel Boatlift, that had surgeons at Kendall Regional Hospital and Mercy Hospital organizing boats to pick up friends and relatives since Cubans we’re being allowed to leave by the hated Fidel Castro. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariel_boatlift Miami at the time October 1980, was also dealing with the drug war and recovering from a recession back then and the ethnic tension was high among locals that had people underneath I-95 in tents and it was a horrific place for some of these newly arrived Cubans, just getting used to America and a former segregated Florida, with proud crackers to the north and south. Since then, we have evolved to the special place Miami has become, where once tourists were hunted in their visible rental cars, to robberies with special sun signs on expressway signs to designate the beaches, back then.
>>> There are 1,248 past WDR reports on line since 2000 as I head toward 25-years of free weekly publishing and young Elian Gonzalez, a small Cuban boy rescued, who ripped Miami’s Cuban community apart along ethnic lines and government inefficiency made me want to-do this after saving millions once at the PHT.
>>> Tough times if you can support thank you to my supporters who did in the past:>>> Having to forgo medicine because of cost. I was saved for another year last week from a long-time reader and supporter. Thank you so much.
And may you and your family have a great safe & Healthy New Year, in 2025, may we come together for peace, in a troubled world.
Further, the WDR was NBC’s 6, Hometown Hero and I did over 150 radio shows on WLRN, but got canceled after saying something wrong on a show most likely about the county’s Independent Review Panel, and Peter J Maerz banned me on the show Topical Currents with Joe Cooper host & Richard Ives on phones since then.
Further, if you would rather send a check send it made out to Daniel Ricker and mail it to 3109 Grand Ave., #125 Miami, Fla. 33133.
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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY:
>>> Will county commission, pick a place holder for two years left on Keven Cabrera, District 6 seat on board, termed out commissioner Rebeca Sosa, has lost husband always very active, she might consider coming back, has a wealth of knowledge, was even chair once. Cabrera’s financial disclosure his 2023 IRS1040 included, nothing remarkable click to review disclosure filing: https://disclosure.floridaethics.gov/Report/PrintForm/?filingId=961713
The Miami-Dade County Commission has a choice of how to fill soon to be Panama Ambassador, in Trump’s administration county commissioner Kevin Cabrera’s District 6 seat, and long held by Rebeca Sosa who was termed out.
The body could consider picking Sosa who is close to Sen Marco Rubio with a joining office years ago. Cabrera in a Trump tweet made his appointment known causing a replacement frenzy in political circles in south Florida. Cabrera will be the second time Panama gets an ambassador from Miami-Dade.
The other Coral Gables local land use attorney Simon Ferro appointed by Bill Clinton in 1999 had the task of completing the turnover of the Panama Canal established in an agreement by Jimmy Carter and the country back in the late 70s.
Sosa served since 2001with out controversy and was a procurement maven passing legislation demanding deadlines be met and was a fiscal conservative, who really cared about her district residents and county. The women a past mayor and educator of children was also pragmatic, and was reelected with a major majority of voters and would be a safe choice allowing others to run in the future fairly.
She chaired the Nominating Council for PHT trustees years ago when an applicant Joe Arriola, smacked my head hard at the table and I was shocked. She agreed after I mentioned the incident and the applicant was rejected but would later be a chair himself later known for his acerbic comments, and later an anger management program. Here is Cabrera’s financial disclosure and IRS 1020:
>>> President Joe Biden signed into law the Damar Hamlin HEARTS ACT, recently that provides education and training of installed AED defibrillators, and CPR programs in schools around the nation and is a great bill. Since we lose student athletes to sudden death events like the NFL player had in a game on national television. For more on the bill go to:
The WDR, in the past had urged this need in the past and local hospital systems like Baptist Health and Jackson cardiologist do free screenings of athletes and this new legislation may reduce some 1,000 deaths nationwide.
>>> Waiting for mayoral update: The Doral incinerator fire 666 days ago, the one unanswered question is what caused the fire? Mayor says “an item exploded and then spread,” ATF helped in investigation says, Levine Cava, Miami not stranger to suspicious fires over years?
I asked county mayor Daniella Levine Cava if we knew what caused the fire? She responded “yes,” “A item exploded and then spread, “she wrote and indicated Alcohol Tobacco Firearms & Explosives (ATF), was involved in the investigation and might not be able to give much other info she texted me last week. The proposed $1.5 billion new incinerator cost and location has been a hot controversial topic. Unfortunately, Miami has a history of suspicious fires that could start with one butane lighter refill cartridge, something hard to find or notice and the public should be asking more about how it started in the first place
CITY OF MIAMI
Bayfront Park Trust gets new director Hernandez, able to be manipulated, b Carollo, I suspect?
The women involved in parks in the past has had a checkered history and probable why Carollo supported her, and she will be easy to manipulate given her past, given her husband is Danny Espino a county school board member, appointed by the governor, who owns a brewery: For more on her click : https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article286954390.html
The trust has become a tool for Carollo during his time in office that at one point his brother Frank chaired and helped rehabilitate the Carollo brand leading to his brother coming back to the commission when Frank was termed out, and his old office is the only one without hurricane proof windows because he didn’t want the workers alone in his office at the time staff told me years ago.
OPINION
President Joe Biden pardoning 1,500 non violent felons is beyond belief given Medicare fraud, the nation’s taxpayers money of some of the individuals, even his son Hunter is more than embarrassing to the world, Taxpayers can tell you, IRS wants its money it’s our money not yours, said one retired federal agent I know! Now the death row pardons, creating unusual legacy for Bidens term, “All animals are created equal… but some are more equal than others,” wrote George Orwell-Animal Farm.
These broad pardon criteria actions (That should be explained to the public and who signed by an auto pen) are corrosive to the under pinning of law and order. After 24-ears talking to politicians high &low six presidential candidates and one president. These pardons are too far a stretch for Americans and the WDR in particular. Now the pardoning of death row convictions, makes it all even stranger on the end of his term in office.
Tax evasion and cash for kid’s judge are beyond belief including his son Hunter. For regular people behind in taxes feel, a giant weight on their chest as I was behind one year. When I first started WDR years ago. And for a son to get this what appears known by Hunter given some past actions.
Shows that some people are better off than the rest of us when it comes to the IRS, that looks for high profile people Martha Stewart, Leona Helmsley to ingrain the motto two things in life death and taxes and the “government wants its money a retired special agent once told me and it’s not your money but ours,” he seriously intoned.
Yes, politics is a dirty business, but this action is so hypocritical to what many have said and Biden’s fragile legacy has only gotten worse by these actions. A good friend of mine that attended a U.S, service academy made the comment regarding the pardons, “America is upside down, “from a respected man who served his country and is a straight up man and friend.
My life took a strange turn from a past corporate life and I doubt anyone will follow me in the future and would commit some $365,000 of their own money and did not benefit financially from the information I got since I was alone and everything came directly to me. For scandals and wasted public money or poor uninformed decisions, were what drove me 24-weekly years ago plus J.L. Plummer 29 years in office, and I have deformed fingers from all the typing over those years. Here is a national story that ran in all 47 Tribune papers of how I got to this soon 25-year land mark and the challenges still here today
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-2003-01-20-0301190045-story.html
>>> Gabela also reappointed disgraced circuit court judge Martin Zilber to the code enforcement board and lowers the bar of these people appointed to these boards
What do we know about Gabela’s finances?
The WDR reviewed his Jan 31,2023 financial disclosure on file and his net worth back then was $3.69 million, with significant real estate holdings and two retail companies involved with Jaguars. To read this document click here: file:///C:/Users/DanielRicker/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/INetCache/Content.Outlook/0SEAJZCT/Gabela%20Miguel%20A%20-%20City%20of%20Miami%20Public%20Disclosure%20of%20Financial%20Interests%20(003).pdf
PUBLIC HEALTH TRUST
>>> The crown jewel of Miami’s public hospital Jackson Health System’s, Ryder Trauma Center a Class 1 trauma facility was “recertified with no observations,” said CEO Carlos Migoya at a recent trust meeting.
Ryder has been a training hospital for U.S. Army surgeons before being deployed and has trained some almost 50 percent of Israel’s trauma surgeons’ years past. Since the 1992 creation that consults with car companies on ways to make them safer.
In Miami-Dade if you’re in a car wreck or shot the facility is a life saver that many communities can only dream of. Back then hospital CEOs agreed to have one great facility, with helicopter landings. Staffed 24/7 and invaluable to all county residents.
Further, I have been asked many times why I wrote so much about the county’s public Jackson Health System, it is because so important to everyone regardless of income and of course the community crown jewel Ryder Trama Center, created in 1992 when local hospital administrators agreed to one great Trauma Center versus smaller less specialized ERs, and staffing.
The center has trained hundreds of military surgeons in America and Israel, and anyone in a bad car crash, or gunshot wound and survives will thank Ryder, and once when I was with Cordis Corp. here in Miami I had to wait for a certified check (because of their bad finances) in the OR suite before I could give Dr. Richard Thurer a pacing electrode, to the nurse, and that always stayed with me and why a healthy JHS had a major impact on the community but wasn’t getting the attention it deserved at the time under community icon Ira Clark, who had failing health in 2002.
But JHS was in financial trouble after rebuffing an offer to share indigent care costs I think $12 million in Homestead with Baptist Health after executives made the offer that was rejected at the time and began JHS losing money when the county had some 500,00 residents without health insurance and JHS by 2004 was giving $500 million in charity care and the countywide half-cent sales tax going to JHS could not keep up to the vast number of patients.
>>> United Way of Miami has wrapped 1,000 toys for underserved children
https://unitedwaymiami.org/ The organization is the county’s platform for many communities’ social programs, after being led by Harve Mogul for decades and is a great organization in south Florida.
CITY OF MIAMI: COCONUT GROVE
>>> PAST WDR: The Miami commission has a tree ordinance change making it easier for developers to build on tree parcels and is a terrible idea brought forth by Commissioner Miguel Gabela and what makes the Grove attractive is the tree canopy being destroyed at a high rate many in the south Grove. Where three new cube homes are being built wiping out the trees. Here is the Coconut Grove Spotlights take on the issue and Miami tree Trust funds missing for more go to:https://coconutgrovespotlight.com/2024/10/24/commission-defers-proposed-changes-to-city-tree-protection-ordinance/
The WDR knows when it comes to general fund money the city of Miami is a crack addict, with never enough and at civil service meetings just getting a “standardized test score is a big deal,” said the 14-year board chair and Miami commissioners once considered a condominium in Peacock Park and the Grove sailing club but was dropped after the outcry by the community.
>>> THE COCONUT GROVE CRISIS FOOD PANTRY needs help and donations to this 501c-3 organization for more go to; https://coconutgrovecrisisfoodpantry.com/
Miami-Dade County
>>> Lotus House Village is full of 240 families and children as Miami reels from economic homeless residents with rents through the roof as well as food etc. And the city of Miami approved some shelter funding for this important service not-for-profit founded by CEO Constance Collins and is a great community asset. www.lotushouse.org
CITY OF MIAMI
>>> Public Record being shredded, by poor minutes, Clerks should put paper on speaker podium saying “name address please,” will help record and save time officials, Thursday two speakers were not identified during code mitigation and Clerk’s office must get people’s names not speaking into mics at Miami, and Miami- Dade County commission meeting where a budget vote number was not announced a number of times and makes for incorrect minutes. Clerks need to put sheet of paper on speaker podiums asking for residents for name & address, unless exempted law enforcement.
An attorney in an appeal when the taped minutes were not clear. “He asked is that God talking from a burning bush,” he asked because of any gaps or confusion. Televised meetings only work if there heard.
Editor’s note: Double whammy hits Florida after the storm insurance rates will go up but citrus revenue to state will go down as well as tourism with resorts in shambles.
>>> Another hot topic is the powers of the new Miami’s Inspector General’s office, that voters overwhelming approved after years of scandals in the city. Carollo wants all investigations begun be sworn statements to limit bogus claims, but IG has own decision to make on credibility of accuser passes.
Miami commissioner Carollo is demanding all investigations be a “sworn complaint,” by the IG too reduce frivolous complaints and ultimately the IG at the county can initiate investigations own their own and the system and inspector at the county has worked well.
The voters overwhelmingly voted for the IG., but given Miami’s history with creating voter IG legislation but many are skeptical how they will create this new oversight office.
>>> Here’s AI’s take on me and the WDR: I assume you are asking about the Watchdog Report by Daniel A. Ricker. The Watchdog Report is a weekly e-mail newsletter that covers government news from the nation, Florida, Miami-Dade County, Miami-Dade Public Schools, the Public Health Trust, Miami and other municipalities in the county 1. Daniel A. Ricker is the publisher and editor of the Watchdog Report 1. The Watchdog Report is widely read by government insiders and a veritable who’s who of Miami 2. It is a compilation of the tidbits and observations he synthesizes from his tireless rounds 2. The Watchdog Report is estimated to bring in about $30,000 a year 2.
>>>> Miami-Dade County starting new era, 5 new constitutional offices, each will have a public information officer, maybe sgt. -of-arms, political conflict on budgets expected, if history a predicter of behavior.
With five new constitutional offices’ being voted on Nov.5., Miami-Dade County joins the other 57 counties after a statewide vote created the new offices, currently under the county administration and are now political offices with a standalone budget funded by the county and if Broward County is an example the clash of these two political offices can be a spectacle, look at Sheriff Gregory Tony and past supervisor of elections Miriam Oliphant, who sent her self-flowers ever week on her office budget. Both had a contested time with their county counterparts. Further, the new Sheriff’s office in Miami-Dade County will take over all the municipal police service provided to the smaller communities.
>>> Will Miami billionaires, probable not, help keep good government oversight by supporting local media of all kinds with $20 billion in public tax dollars in play in Miami Dade County all public institutions from Jackson to school district?
With early voting starting Monday the money is rolling in for the candidates and people sometimes billionaires should consider helping the community by having a vibrant diverse media and the blogs and I say this having spent some $365,000 of my own money and why I have worked so hard to try to keep the community informed and these billionaires have cut a wide swath in medical and education endeavors but oversight of government is slowly passing regarding historical knowledge and the thousands of financial disclosure forms I have. I write this since these very successful people are also making political donations to some local races including $500,000 to Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, from philanthropist Ken Griffin, and people who financially can should consider stepping up to the local level for there is almost $20 billion in public government funded by your tax dollars.
>>> History Miami.org needs to archive the digital data from all the investigative blogs including the WDR for residents will not have access to the past and for reporters’ citizens need to go to the lower-level public meetings and see the lobbyists there.
>>For Miami is like a giant tapestry getting additions constantly. The public schools audit committee is a key one as well as Miami’s finance committee etc. In my case I did this like a job that I self- financed to the tune of $165,000, which at my age was a disaster since not planning living this long but someone had to do it back in 2000. Here’s more on early year’s national story: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-2003-01-20-0301190045-story.html
>>> History Miami needs to archive the digital data from all the investigative blogs including the WDR for residents will not have access to the past and for reporters’ citizens need to go to the lower-level public meetings and see the lobbyists there.>>For Miami is like a giant tapestry getting additions constantly. The public schools audit committee is a key one as well as Miami’s finance committee etc. In my case I did this like a job that I self-financed, which at my age was a disaster since not living this long but someone had to do it back in 2000. Here’s more on early year’s national story: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-2003-01-20-0301190045-story.html
But I also have to move after ten years with a benevolent hand lord who kept rent same, but taxes pushed him over and is selling the property and I am looking for an efficiency, and also selling Chinese Art from feudal age to 1977 after artists were over the cultural revolution. The Miami Commissioners are all millionaires from small to large and most are in property value increase except Joe Carollo with a million negative net worth disclosure forms show
>>> The Watchdog Report celebrated its 24th anniversary, May 5, 2024, and much has changed since then when I saw our public institutions employees treating residents like only a nuisance and “working there was a right, not a privilege,” and savings could be seen, but ignored especially at MIA where director Gary De Lappa, kept saying regarding overruns “it’s not county money,” only challenged by Raul Martinez, “ who said “its someone’s money,” and you better find out whose,” the Hialeah mayor suggested. And why no low-cost carriers are at MIA because landing fees are so high.
>>> Inflation impact impacting healthcare not just JHS, & after Steward Medical declares bankruptcy with $9 billion debt and going higher, many owners’ equity firm over the years. Update: Company looking for buyers, for profit system.
>>> Community periodicals running campaign stories on candidates receive roughly $1 million in county funding in periodical contributions IG found 18 periodicals got funding and six could not be found wrote the IG back in 2000 following an audit of the program that can be helpful to candidates in a host of languages.
>>> Community Event the Miami Warehouse has a new exhibit open to the public and for more go to: https://thewarehousemia.com/
>>> At the county level elections were the stepchild of government (where reluctantly they had to hold them) but keep funding to a minimum i.e… would you maintain the machines or spend money on vaccinating the children of Miami and a newgroup of leaders should read two books.
And they should read the 1999, two volume Miami-Dade County “Empowerment Zone books” to get a real sense of what the challenges to the community really are, including all the polluted super fund sites, yet to be addressed etc. It is a must read and I still have some since I was giving them out to leaders, including Katherine Harris, and later too Tom Fiedler in county commission chambers for the Miami circle debate that is still festering and not open to the public.
Financial support critical now if you can help. Thank you, Dan., I want to thank the recent supporters for helping me keep at this after the cost to the community after Covid, and inflation decimated many of our healthcare systems and ER diversions were widespread with healthcare stretched to the max and have yet to recover, still facing “head winds,” like Jackson Health System, said CEO Migoya recently at a board meeting.
>>> The United Way of Miami celebrated its one hundred anniversaries, and the organization is a frequent pass through for funding of CBOs by the county has evolved over the years and is where The Children’s Trust holds its board meetings. THE WDR gives it a Tip OF The Hat for all it does in our community.
>>> You need real proof to convict corruption, but fundraising while legal is part of it for politicians. A woman on Miami Beach once told me “I don’t mind we are corrupt, but what bothers me is we are so cheap,” the older women said (Further it was so blatant and obvious, that prompted the WDR. Since I was single with “no children, or wife when someone asked if my wife had a scar on her face?” Or “did I know where my children we’re.” back in the early days. Good governance has been elusive but may come yet from a federal judge hearing the city’s redistricting case.
>>> NO progress on synchronizing traffic lights county wide 2027 deadline in question, sold to public back in 2002, transit funding vote.
In 2002 Miami-Dade County passed a one-half cent sales tax to upgrade the transportation system and one of the big hooks to its passage was synchronizing the traffic lights county-wide, that has yet to be achieved by the county and these monies have been siphoned off over the years for a variety of uses, and last Tuesday the county once again was still sending millions to a politically connected vender for the conversion and Commissioner Raquel Regalado when the issue of software problems that she has been working on this when a school board member and their performance gives “her heart burn,” she said.
EDITORIAL
>>> Anniversary of life saving procedure when I was septic at South Miami Hospital, Baptist Health, hospital in 2009, and I thank you Dr. Jorge Rabaza for saving my life, back then.
The next few days is the anniversary of my almost passing in 2009. I was septic and operated on at 2;00 p.m., “because I could not wait,” not something you don’t want to hear from a surgeon, said Jorge Rabaza, M.D. at South Miami Hospital back ’then and he said, “I was a flip of the coin,” that I survived, he said and since then every day is a free day.,
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MIAMI-DADE WATCHDOG WILL BE MISSED
Published on January 20, 2003, Page 1E, Orlando Sentinel, PAPERWORK TIGER, Miami’s citizen watchdog piles up government files in his quest to keep the “little people” informed. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-2003-01-20-0301190045-story.html
>>> Watchdog Report publisher named ‘Best Citizen’ 2003 by the Miami New Times
The publisher would like to thank the weekly alternative paper Miami New Times for bestowing their 2003 Best of Miami, ‘Best Citizen’ award to me and I am honored. Thank you. To read the full story go to http://www.miaminewtimes.com/best-of/2003/people-and-places/best-citizen-6399517
>>> And to support the WDR go to my Pay Pal account that is easy to use and right now would be a great time: http://paypal.me/WatchdogReport
Further, if you would rather send a check send it made out to Daniel Ricker and mail it to 3109 Grand Ave., #125 Miami, Fla. 33133. Thank you, Dan.
>>> And having a member of the press at public meetings gives teeth to the Florida Sunshine Law (and why you get a Flu Shot) and open meetings tape recorded keeps good governance in place and reduces waste fraud and abuse, and public corruption, and is why you don’t speed in front of a state trooper for example. And hope you can support the WDR efforts to have informed residents of public institutions issues, in our community.
>>> Further the www.watchdogreport.net in South Florida is an established news service presence, because most people are too busy to go to these important meetings., and all the information comes through me as a central point allowing me to see things at a 100-mile altitude and being an early warning system when projects have overruns or other issues. But my job is to sound the alarm and I have done so many times over the past years in a host of ways.
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